SQLServerCentral: Content tagged String Manipulation

CHARINDEX()

By Bill Lantz 2013/05/21 | Category: charindex

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LEN()

By Eduardo Rey 2013/03/29 | Category: len()

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Silent Truncation of SQL Server Data Inserts

There are certain circumstances where SQL Server will silently truncate data, without providing an error or warning, before it is inserted into a table. In this tip we cover some examples of when this occurs. Read more...

By Additional Articles 2013/02/01 | Source: MSSQLTips.com | Category: t-sql

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STUFF - 2

By bitbucket 2012/12/10 | Category: stuff

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Splitting Strings Based on Patterns

Splitting strings based on patterns supported by LIKE and PATINDEX can be an interesting way to address a wide variety of problems. Read more...

By Dwain Camps 2012/11/29 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: string manipulation

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STUFF - 1

By bitbucket 2012/11/23 | Category: stuff

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Parsing Parameters in a Stored Procedure

This article shows a clean non-looping method to parse comma separated values from a parameter passed to a stored procedure. Read more...

By Diego Buendía 2012/11/02 (first published: 2010/08/10) | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: array

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Key Word Searches

This article from Todd Fifield shows a Way to avoid the dreaded LIKE operator in your queries and dramatically speed up keyword searches. Read more...

By Todd Fifield 2012/09/07 (first published: 2011/02/28) | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: string manipulation

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Trim Left Char (for single words)

Remove the first replications of a specified char in a word. It does not work well with text that contains blank spaces in the middle. Read more...

By Adrian Facio 2012/08/16 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: trim

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Padding function

Function that helps you to normalize numbers or strings. Read more...

By Francis Jamet 2012/08/02 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: string manipulation

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Cast in Varchar with different options

By Paresh Patel 2012/07/16 | Category: t-sql

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String Length

By Kenneth Fisher 2012/07/11 | Category: t-sql

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T-SQL Integer Data-Type Conversions

This article will show some common integer data-type conversions using T-SQL. Read more...

By Peter Kierstead 2012/06/26 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: t-sql

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A CONCAT Function For The Rest Of Us

SQL Server 2012 introduces a new string concatenation function. This can be recreated in earlier versions of SQL Server. Read more...

By Mike McQuillan 2012/06/06 | Source: SQLServerCentral.com | Category: string manipulation

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Converting String Data to XML and XML to String Data

In general XML documents or fragments are held in strings as text markup. In SQL Server, XML variables and columns are instead tokenised to allow rapid access to the data within. This is fine, but can cause some odd problems, such as ' entitization'. What do you do if you need to preserve the formatting? As usual Rob Sheldon comes to our aid. Read more...

By Additional Articles 2012/02/07 | Source: SimpleTalk | Category: xml

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